So what happens when you’re CEO of a busy company who also has a dream of pursuing their ‘hobby’? How can you balance the two, be great at both and not burn out in the process?
Many Hands wants to help you do good the next time you buy art. With more social enterprises appearing on the scene, it seems like shopping in itself is becoming an opportunity to contribute to a good cause. Welcome to Many Hands, Melbourne’s first online art gallery that harnesses creativity to change the world for…
Successful entrepreneurs truly come from all walks of life, and you really don’t need to be a techie. Need a real-life example to inspire you? That’d be Redbubble, the Australian online success story that is really all about art. Redbubble CEO Martin Hosking was an Arts graduate turned foreign service officer turned entrepreneur who now…
Juliet Rosser was a self-described “terrible employee” in her past career. However, after making the life-changing decision to work for herself, she has found great success as director of her arts business, Platform72. Launched in February 2012, Platform72 is a hybrid art gallery and retail store housing an eclectic mix of Australian artworks and designer…
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The Alphabet Photography company does two things really well. Firstly, it frames art that is made up of letters of the alphabet, hence the company name. Secondly, it comes up with brilliant Christmas videos as a part of its content marketing strategy. This year’s effort is quite delightful.
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Awesomely Australian are the words that spring to mind when it comes to qualify the coolness of Bay & Fyfe. The company takes the artwork of Aussie artist Daimon Downey and applies it to lush silk scarves. The result? An artistic statement to wear round your neck that is basically an Australian exclusive. Cool points? Cha-ching!
Normally when we say something is a little salty at Anthill, we’re referring to the use of certain, shall we say, creative words. Words that may make your mum blush; or they may not. It depends on your mum. But in this video, salt takes on a whole new meaning. It becomes the most astonishing artistic medium.
You don’t have to be a fragile artist to produce a masterpiece like this. Simply install IOGraph and get on with your normal computer business. After a while, open the software and save your visual tracking abstraction for others to admire.
From the wonderfully verdant mind of entrepreneurial illustrator Hugh MacLeod, author of Ignore Everybody (listed among Amazon’s Top 10 Editor’s Picks for Best Business Books 2009), comes this print worthy of hanging on any entrepreneur’s wall.
From the wonderfully verdant mind of entrepreneurial illustrator Hugh MacLeod, author of Ignore Everybody (listed among Amazon’s Top 10 Editor’s Picks for Best Business Books 2009), comes this print worthy of hanging on any entrepreneur’s wall.
Seventeen-year-old art student Jamie Bell created this stop-motion clip using biros, about 50 jotter books and 2100 pages. It took him three weeks, but it was worth it – he received full marks from his teacher. (And us.)
Wiltshire was at it again this week when US television network CBS sponsored him to draw an 18 foot panorama of New York from memory after taking a 20-minute helicopter ride over the city. The whole process was documented in television segments and on a dedicated website that includes articles, photos, video footage and even a live ustream video feed.
If you find that you can’t get enough of yourself, why not have a totally unique polymer clay doll created in your likeness? Sculpted by Cyndi Safstrom and made to order.
Two videos for you today. The first is real news footage from the 1929 stock market crash on Wall Street. The second, in stark contrast, is a delightfully hypnotic video of scenes from Sydney harbour.
We simply love situations where business, art and culture collide.
We simply love situations where business, art and culture collide.
Some unusual signs have begun appearing taped to lampposts and other streetside objects in Melbourne’s trendy St Kilda/Chapel Street areas. The efforts of a deranged man named Craig in search of meaning in a troubled world? Unlikely. But this is what we should expect when people with liberal arts degrees have too much time on their hands.
Something a bit different this week. At Anthill, we’re keen advocates of great design as a gateway to untapped creativity. We place immense emphasis on the design of our finished product (something Australian business magazines traditionally have not prioritised) and it’s something we take time to appreciate in the work of others. So it was…
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